Jonardon Ganeri b. 1963
Jonardon Ganeri (born 1963) is a British-Indian philosopher of the Contemporary era, associated with Analytic Philosophy and Indian Philosophy.
Jonardon Ganeri is a British-Indian philosopher, professor at the University of Toronto, and one of the leading interpreters of classical Indian philosophy in the English-speaking world. The Concealed Art of the Soul reread Indian theories of the self in the light of contemporary philosophy of mind, while The Lost Age of Reason recovered the seventeenth-century Sanskrit philosophical efflorescence in Banaras as a moment of genuinely modern Indian rationality. His more recent The Self and Attention, Not I have put Indian Buddhist and Nyaya theories of mind into productive conversation with contemporary phenomenology and analytic philosophy.
Key facts
- Nationality
- British-Indian
- Era
- Contemporary
- Movements
- Analytic Philosophy, Indian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“The history of Indian philosophy is a history of arguments, not of doctrines.”
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Self-knowledge in the classical Indian schools is at once a moral and an epistemic achievement.”
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Modernity has many beginnings; one of them is in seventeenth-century Banaras.”
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Attention is the medium in which the self appears and disappears.”
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Attributed to Jonardon Ganeri:
“Comparative philosophy is not the comparison of finished systems; it is the meeting of living traditions of inquiry.”
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- When was Jonardon Ganeri born?
- Jonardon Ganeri was born in 1963.
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- Jonardon Ganeri is a British-Indian philosopher of the Contemporary era.
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- Jonardon Ganeri is associated with Analytic Philosophy and Indian Philosophy.
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- Jonardon Ganeri is a British-Indian philosopher, professor at the University of Toronto, and one of the leading interpreters of classical Indian philosophy in the English-speaking world.
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